Motor



(No Model.)

M. M. GONGER. Motor.

No. 236,555. Patented Jah. 11,1881.

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ATENI FFICE.

MILTON M. OONGER, OF WELLSVILLE, MISSOURI.

' MOTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,555, dated January11, 1881.

Application filed October 20,1880. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MILTON M. OONGER, ofWellsville, in the county of Montgomery and State of Missouri, haveinvented certain new and useful Imprm'ements in Motors, or impellingmechanism to be operated by steam, water, air, or other fluid substance;and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, which will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to a device for impelling vehicles andmachinerythrough the agency of steam, water, compressed air, &e., in amanner hereinafter to be described.

It consists, principally, in providing a means for imparting motion tovehicles and machinery by the employment of soft tubing beneath aflexible bearing-surface for traction-wheels, which tubing and flexiblebearing, under the influence of steam, water, air, or other expansibleor compressible fluid forced into said tubin g, will form a wedge-shapedor inclined wall or abutment immediately in rear of the tangentialbearing of said wheel, with the effect to propel it in a givendirection, the momentum of which wheel will furnish an impellingforce tocarry a vehicle or any machinery.

In my drawings, Figure l is a plan view, showing a straight track and awheel-vehicle bearing thereon. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on line orw of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of same on line 3 3 Fig. 4is a plan, showing the application of the principle of my invention asapplied to a track of a concentric circular form.

Referring to the drawings, A is a tubular track, formed of metal orother suitable material, rectangular in general form, open at the top toform a longitudinal slotor groove of a width sufficient to receive therim or felly of a wheel, B. IVithin this tubular track is run a flexibletube, 0, formed of elastic material,

having a texture which will resist the perme ating tendencies of thesubstance to be forced into it. Between this tubing and the flanges aformed by the opening in the track is run a metallic plate or ribbon,which bears upon the said tubingflnd receives directly the wheel B withits superincumbeut weight. By a suitable valve the destination end ofthe said tube is opened, while the opposite or starting end receives thefluid or substance which expands or distends the said tube to its utmostcapacity. The bearing-point of the wheel B, by gravitation, bears uponthe metallic ribbon A and indirectly upon the tubing 0, and separatesthe empty from the filled parts as said wheel is driven forward. Whenthe filling substance is introduced into the tube, the wheel B being inposition, an inclined plane, it will be seen, is formed immediately inrear of the bearingpoint, the surface of which plane, bearing againstthe periphery of the wheel, forces it forward, and as said fillingfollows the yieldin g weight an even and constant movement is effected.This principle may be variously applied, and by way of illustration Ishow in Fig. 4: of my drawings a circular or endless track of opentubular rails, with a flexible tubing and metallic ribbon bearing-platesimilar to that of the straight track. A truck formed of an axle and twowheels, which I use in this illustration, is driven from oppositedirections about a common axis of motion over said circular track. Inthis application it is necessary to have two independent sections offlexible tubing, each of which embraces one-half of the track, or, inother words, two semicircular pieces, which will be separated by narrowdead-spaces, which must be so formed as to offer no obstruction to themovement of the wheels as they are passing opposite points between thefilled and exhausted ends, as said points would have to be passedthrough the influence of the momentum gained by the last impulse of thesaid filled ends. Both pipes being simultaneously relieved of theirpressure until after the bearingpoints of the wheel were passed, theywould be immediately refilled for renewed impulse. In this illustration,Fig. 4, the axis of motion E would represent a shaft upon which would befixed the driving-wheel of the machinery to be driven.

I do not claim, broadly, the use of the flexible tubing under theinfluence of air or other fluids forced thereinto to drive vehicles ormachinery, as I am aware that such has been used in various connectionsbefore.

metallic ribbon or plate, in combination with a flexible tube, as andfor the purpose specified. I 5

3. The combination of tube A, provided with flanges a, plate or ribbonA, and flexible tube 0, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 20 my own I affix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

HILTON M. CONGER.

Witnesses WM. HELMICK, I. N. KoLB.

